One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.